[MPlayer-DOCS] Proposal: split manpages

[Jiri Heryan]

Torinthiel wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +0200, Carl F?rstenberg wrote:
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>>Tried to find, but no luck, is ther any way to search old archives,
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>http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/s-arch.cgi?sbm=mplayer-dev-eng
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>http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel
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>And about splitting - if you come with a sensible way of doing it, than
>maybe. But "sensible" means (as was discussed before) everything needed
>to use M{Player,Encoder} is in m{player,encoder}.1 (so no
>mplayer-common.1 or so, and nothing like "see also mplayer.1" in
>mencoder.1. And it also means no text duplication in CVS, as this will
>for sure get out of sync. Any ideas? If you have a good one, I can help
>you with the build system.
>Torinthiel
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What about split mplayer.1 into separate files in common format (i.e. 
XML) by sections (header.xml; ...; codecsopt.xml, etc.). Then you can 
have one original in cvs and in main files (mplayer.xml; mencoder.xml) 
will be include commands only.

Well it's idea only :-)

Jiri